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mi sona ala e ni. toki pona li toki lili. toki sike li wile nimi mute. toki pona li jo ala e nimi mute. toki pona li jo nimi moku. toki pona li jo ala nimi "consume". sona suli li wile e nimi mute. toki siki li wile ala toki pona.

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Sorry, can't translate, toki pona language specs is copyrighted.

I don't think there is validity to that though I do appreciate the humor and sentiment. A book can be copy-written sure but many have re-created the spec and dictionary.

Recreating a spec is the entire idea of teaching something from scratch. It's too fundamental for law like that. Unless you know examples of actual legal threats and aggressive positioning, maybe like what happened around Lojban.

> A book can be copy-written

Not if it's copyrighted, one would think?

The dictionary is released into the public domain :)

Is there a place I can find it online?

Searching google for "toki pona dictionary online", in an incognito tab, brings up three dictionaries. One of them (the one on zrajm.github.io) is identical to the one in the book. You can also find a copy in the Toki Pona discord server. I have prepared a PDF version (1 page double-sided, a4 paper) which can be found here: http://0x0.st/ofqt.pdf from this groff input file: http://0x0.st/ofqv.roff (also by me).

"siki" li seme?

pakala. mi wile toki e "sike". mi pilin lape mute lol

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